Assam draft voter roll flags over 10 lakh names for deletion, correction after door-to-door survey

There is a total of 2,52,02,775 electors in Assam, and excluding ‘D’-voters – whose cases are pending before Foreigners’ Tribunals and are not permitted to vote in elections until their citizenship is upheld by a court – the number stands at 2,51,09,754. According to the Assam Chief Election Commissioner’s office, all these 2.51 crore electors have been covered under the house-to-house survey in which 61,03,103 households were visited.

According to the statement from the CEO’s office, 4,78,992 deceased electors have been identified for deletion. Apart from deceased electors, 5,23,680 electors were found to have moved from the locations they were registered as voters in. Also, 53,619 ‘demographical similar entries’ or duplicate entries were identified for correction.

After the publication of the integrated draft roll Saturday, the period of filing claims and objections has begun and will continue till January 22.

“During this period, new electors can apply for a claim to be included in the roll by filling Form 6. People can also file objections against the inclusion of a name, for example if they claim that such a person is not there in the polling station. And in the case of people who have shifted from their earlier registered place, they have to apply for their residence to be shifted to their new place. This will also apply to people who have moved following evictions, though many of them were found to still be camping in and around the places from which they were evicted, in which case they have not been eroded from the electoral roll,” said an official from the CEO’s office.

The final electoral roll will be published on February 10. It is expected that the notification for the upcoming state elections will be released at the end of February.